The incentive here is to be just a little greener, and verifiably so, than your competition, and to shout it from the rooftops. If the American consumer REALLY (and are they???) is interested in 'being green' (whatever that means), then they'll come to you. Your competition counters with similar moves, so you go 'greener', until one of you reaches the point where you can't absorb the cost without raising prices to the point that suddenly your market stops caring about being green.
Other than that, there is NO incentive for 'being green', unless you count Government regulation... but that confuses the power of the dollar with the power of the gun, so its not part of logical discourse.
Anyone who mentions something specific about ITIL, or uses the phrase "best practice", is almost invariably a wanker. How about you do your job in a sensible way, before we all sit around circle-jerking about acronyms, Process (with the capital P) and org charts?
The quantum dots were supposed to emit blue light, but instead they were giving off a beautiful white glow.
I bet Marie and Pierre Curie thought something similar at one point. "Hey look, this lump of weird metal that we produced is glowing so pretty... hey, if I put it in my mouth, my eyes glow too! Fun!"
And the tuition which is NOT picked up by the government is covered by government-sponsored loans. The entire higher education industry is a racket. 'Engineering' is so broad a profession that it makes no sense to call it such. I work for a large bank, in the IT department. My job is certainly less subsidized than a dinosaur hunter. While entire branches of engineering MIGHT be subsidized, ALL of the branches of paleontology ARE subsidized.
Boy, silly me, I went to school to be an engineer, and spent countless thousands of dollars and 6 years of my life doing so. These guys get to play with dinosaur bones, fly all over the world looking at rocks, play with synthetic dinosaur claw machines, and don't ever have to make a penny. After doing this for many years, they'll retire on a fat taxpayer funded pension.
For instance, Cox Cable @Home explicitly says "No VPNs", but many users do anyway. It would be a simple matter for them to block IPSec traffic, or even regular UDP/500 traffic. (yes, there are SSL VPNs, blah blah blah). And you couldn't complain, because you signed the contract.
In other countries, not even Soviet Russia, there are State-owned Telcos, which have implicit or explicit Terms of Service. I'm sure the Telco in Saudi Arabia says things like "no porn, no homosexual activity, nothing critical of Islam" etc. They ALSO probably say "no VoIP".
Don't like it? Don't use the service... oh wait, you have to, because its a State owned monopoly. Oh well, strive for political change then.
Yes, your only option is to transcode or re-encode to MP3. Or buy a portable player with an audio input that you can connect to your stereo. Its nice to think that manufacturers will provide multiple format capability, or (in the more general case) Linux drivers, open specs, real warranties, timely rebates, etc, but its really not worth it to them. For every geek that asks for Ogg, there are 9,999 people who won't. I'm sure at this point, MP3 decoding can be had on a DSP for 8 cents. If they sell 1,000,000 decks, and it costs double the 8 cents to add Ogg support, they just lost $80,000. Believe it or not, companies DO care about this stuff. I've known of guys whose business it was to analyze circuit board layouts, so that by optimizing trace patterns, they could take advantage of natural capacitance and inductance, and reduce the board component costs. Fractional pennies add up in this kind of volume.
When that hot humid air from the server room hits the bottom of the cooler bathtub, and circulates around in there, you're going to get a nice crop of fungus growing, which will eat the wood, and ultimately, send your friend's wife, naked and wet, crashing through the floor.
Good idea to recover the heat, but without a dessicator, you'd be better off dumping the heat into living space, where the much larger room size will help mitigate any moisture problems.
There's no difficulty, read my lips: They Don't Care. You have 1991 signatures, thats less than the enrollment at some high schools. If there was a business case, i.e. if they actually made money on it, then Macromedia would do something. To appease 1991 geeks running a fringe OS on (admit it) fringe hardware? C'mon...
This is the sort of thing a 12 year old kid says, when he doesn't get picked for the football team. Cries of "no fair" and "we know we're right but The Man is out to get us" won't stir any sympathy, since Congress is either 1)technologically clueless (since only terrorists do P2P) or 2)in the ??AA's pocket (since P2P = theft). Nobody is going to lose sleep over this.
Please, O Masters of Slashdot, allow me to select 'None' for stories in the Anime section. Just because a subset of geek culture is composed of a group of obese, Cheeto-eating nerds fapping away to tentacle porn, doesn't mean all of us are into your scene. How about a checkbox to ignore Anime stories?
The real point, however, is that it doesn't actually stop the problem. Who gives a shit if you can pin the blame on someone when a virus is rampaging around your network?
Since each MS app you install worms its way into the operating system, every time you install something from MS, you're "upgrading" and "patching" Windows.
"you and i, as informed geeks have the duty and obligation..." Who are you, Plato? I don't have a duty or obligation to do anything to the uninformed public.
"they lack the context in which to make sense of it" Again, this is MY problem?
If you can create a cogent argument that makes these failures MY problem, remembering that I'm not a media consumer, other than renting movies via NetFlix, which is essentially baked-in DRM, please do so. But don't appeal to my "duty" or someone else's failure as something which compels ME to act. You lack of grammar, command of English, and high Slashdot number indicate that you are an American student, and so, can partially be forgiven for naivete.
People will continue to plunk down cash for these products and services, because most people don't care about DRM. Even this won't really affect them, why do you think you can buy the Superbowl on DVD, or the World Series on DVD? People shell out $$ for seasons and seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc. So they DRM the shows on your Tivo after a month.. by then people have either wiped it, or bought the damn thing on DVD.
Then there is the minority, who are not media consumers, who remain unaffected by this.
Before the tinfoil hatters come out, and blame the ??AA or the Government, think: when was the last time you watched one of those old Star Trek episodes you taped 15 years ago "in case you ever wanted to watch them again"?
Journalled filesystems are so 90s. Everyone is raving about how the new whizbang filesystems of the 21st century are going let you do metadata searches, and harken back to the beloved (?) BeOS. Well, what I want to know is: How do I get to this metadata? Some extra tool? Some right-click option that I have to select every time I create a file? Will all File dialog boxes have to be rewritten, and will I have to manually input all this info? I'm happier with Google desktop, which can, effectively, search many types of my files, and has a relatively familiar interface (for all but RMS). Once there's an application which can find all pictures of my dog, or songs with piano in them, and store THAT in the metadata, which I can search somehow, call me. Otherwise I'll stick to ext3fs and NTFS. Wake me when the revolution starts.
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The incentive here is to be just a little greener, and verifiably so, than your competition, and to shout it from the rooftops. If the American consumer REALLY (and are they???) is interested in 'being green' (whatever that means), then they'll come to you. Your competition counters with similar moves, so you go 'greener', until one of you reaches the point where you can't absorb the cost without raising prices to the point that suddenly your market stops caring about being green.
... but that confuses the power of the dollar with the power of the gun, so its not part of logical discourse.
Other than that, there is NO incentive for 'being green', unless you count Government regulation
Engineering MIGHT be subsidized, depending on the field, and might HAVE BEEN subsidized, depending on the field, but paleontology ALWAYS is.
Anyone who mentions something specific about ITIL, or uses the phrase "best practice", is almost invariably a wanker. How about you do your job in a sensible way, before we all sit around circle-jerking about acronyms, Process (with the capital P) and org charts?
The quantum dots were supposed to emit blue light, but instead they were giving off a beautiful white glow.
I bet Marie and Pierre Curie thought something similar at one point. "Hey look, this lump of weird metal that we produced is glowing so pretty... hey, if I put it in my mouth, my eyes glow too! Fun!"
Cache. Cache sucks an amazing amount of power.
And the tuition which is NOT picked up by the government is covered by government-sponsored loans. The entire higher education industry is a racket. 'Engineering' is so broad a profession that it makes no sense to call it such. I work for a large bank, in the IT department. My job is certainly less subsidized than a dinosaur hunter. While entire branches of engineering MIGHT be subsidized, ALL of the branches of paleontology ARE subsidized.
Boy, silly me, I went to school to be an engineer, and spent countless thousands of dollars and 6 years of my life doing so. These guys get to play with dinosaur bones, fly all over the world looking at rocks, play with synthetic dinosaur claw machines, and don't ever have to make a penny. After doing this for many years, they'll retire on a fat taxpayer funded pension.
I guess I'm the sucker.
He was Grand Moff Tarkin. Still, +1 Geeky for you!
What you meant to say, was:
The more you tighten your definition of Fair Use, the more content will slip through your fingers.
(Leia to Vader)
For instance, Cox Cable @Home explicitly says "No VPNs", but many users do anyway. It would be a simple matter for them to block IPSec traffic, or even regular UDP/500 traffic. (yes, there are SSL VPNs, blah blah blah). And you couldn't complain, because you signed the contract.
In other countries, not even Soviet Russia, there are State-owned Telcos, which have implicit or explicit Terms of Service. I'm sure the Telco in Saudi Arabia says things like "no porn, no homosexual activity, nothing critical of Islam" etc. They ALSO probably say "no VoIP".
Don't like it? Don't use the service... oh wait, you have to, because its a State owned monopoly. Oh well, strive for political change then.
Yes, your only option is to transcode or re-encode to MP3. Or buy a portable player with an audio input that you can connect to your stereo.
Its nice to think that manufacturers will provide multiple format capability, or (in the more general case) Linux drivers, open specs, real warranties, timely rebates, etc, but its really not worth it to them. For every geek that asks for Ogg, there are 9,999 people who won't. I'm sure at this point, MP3 decoding can be had on a DSP for 8 cents. If they sell 1,000,000 decks, and it costs double the 8 cents to add Ogg support, they just lost $80,000. Believe it or not, companies DO care about this stuff. I've known of guys whose business it was to analyze circuit board layouts, so that by optimizing trace patterns, they could take advantage of natural capacitance and inductance, and reduce the board component costs. Fractional pennies add up in this kind of volume.
Um, can you say "mold" ?
When that hot humid air from the server room hits the bottom of the cooler bathtub, and circulates around in there, you're going to get a nice crop of fungus growing, which will eat the wood, and ultimately, send your friend's wife, naked and wet, crashing through the floor.
Good idea to recover the heat, but without a dessicator, you'd be better off dumping the heat into living space, where the much larger room size will help mitigate any moisture problems.
There's no difficulty, read my lips: They Don't Care. You have 1991 signatures, thats less than the enrollment at some high schools. If there was a business case, i.e. if they actually made money on it, then Macromedia would do something. To appease 1991 geeks running a fringe OS on (admit it) fringe hardware? C'mon...
You mean .ini files. Don't confuse MS bashing with Linux zealotry.
because most code-monkeys ARE half brain-dead.
This is the sort of thing a 12 year old kid says, when he doesn't get picked for the football team. Cries of "no fair" and "we know we're right but The Man is out to get us" won't stir any sympathy, since Congress is either 1)technologically clueless (since only terrorists do P2P) or 2)in the ??AA's pocket (since P2P = theft). Nobody is going to lose sleep over this.
Please, O Masters of Slashdot, allow me to select 'None' for stories in the Anime section. Just because a subset of geek culture is composed of a group of obese, Cheeto-eating nerds fapping away to tentacle porn, doesn't mean all of us are into your scene.
How about a checkbox to ignore Anime stories?
'Editors' don't always read the SUBMISSION you mean.
This has been on Drudge, Yahoo, and Fark for days. "News" implies that it is new information, doesn't it?
The real point, however, is that it doesn't actually stop the problem. Who gives a shit if you can pin the blame on someone when a virus is rampaging around your network?
This has got to be the stupidest suggestion yet: make it illegal to get a virus, and nobody will get a virus!
... well, do anything.
This AUP will crumble when someone wants to see something in Flash, or use a Pen Drive, or plug into their friend's printer, or
Since each MS app you install worms its way into the operating system, every time you install something from MS, you're "upgrading" and "patching" Windows.
"you and i, as informed geeks have the duty and obligation..."
Who are you, Plato? I don't have a duty or obligation to do anything to the uninformed public.
"they lack the context in which to make sense of it"
Again, this is MY problem?
If you can create a cogent argument that makes these failures MY problem, remembering that I'm not a media consumer, other than renting movies via NetFlix, which is essentially baked-in DRM, please do so.
But don't appeal to my "duty" or someone else's failure as something which compels ME to act. You lack of grammar, command of English, and high Slashdot number indicate that you are an American student, and so, can partially be forgiven for naivete.
People will continue to plunk down cash for these products and services, because most people don't care about DRM. Even this won't really affect them, why do you think you can buy the Superbowl on DVD, or the World Series on DVD? People shell out $$ for seasons and seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc. So they DRM the shows on your Tivo after a month.. by then people have either wiped it, or bought the damn thing on DVD.
Then there is the minority, who are not media consumers, who remain unaffected by this.
Before the tinfoil hatters come out, and blame the ??AA or the Government, think: when was the last time you watched one of those old Star Trek episodes you taped 15 years ago "in case you ever wanted to watch them again"?
Journalled filesystems are so 90s. Everyone is raving about how the new whizbang filesystems of the 21st century are going let you do metadata searches, and harken back to the beloved (?) BeOS. Well, what I want to know is: How do I get to this metadata? Some extra tool? Some right-click option that I have to select every time I create a file? Will all File dialog boxes have to be rewritten, and will I have to manually input all this info?
I'm happier with Google desktop, which can, effectively, search many types of my files, and has a relatively familiar interface (for all but RMS).
Once there's an application which can find all pictures of my dog, or songs with piano in them, and store THAT in the metadata, which I can search somehow, call me. Otherwise I'll stick to ext3fs and NTFS.
Wake me when the revolution starts.